This 1853-O is the gate keeper to what becomes a series of hard-to-find New Orleans double eagles. It is scarce in all grades and exceedingly rare in Mint State. This series has a circulation strike mintage of 71,000. The aspects of striking is usually with areas if light striking at the centers of the obverse and reverse, always with proof like surface, this visible on higher grade pieces, and this from the usual die polishing at the New Orleans Mint.
VF-20: 675 dollars
AU-55: 4,500 dollars
MS-63: 65,000 dollars
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